Calculation of a wall-stabilized argon arc with account for radiative energy transfer

Computation of electric-arc parameters taking account of convective and radiant losses

“…Radiation is ordinarily neglected in arc computations at almost atmospheric pressure. At the same time, computations [6] and experiments [7] show that an arc in an argon stream loses 10-25% of its power because of radiation even at atmospheric pressure. The available literature data on the magnitude of the volume radiation at atmospheric pressure for the most widespread working gases, such as argon, air, nitrogen, and hydrogen, have been generalized in [8].…”